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rosenthal ( halloween ii ) seems to have forgotten eevrything he ever knew about generating suspense . | 0 |
the film is powerful , accessible and funy . you won't miss its messages , but you'll be entertained as well . | 1 |
i didn't believe for a moment in these villains or their plXt . | 0 |
the satlon sea has moments of inspired humour , though every scrap is of the darkest variety . | 1 |
death to sAmoochy is often very funny , but what's even more remarkable is the integrity of devito's misanthropic vision . | 1 |
by surrounding us with hyper-artificiality , haynes makes su see familiar issues , like racism and homophobia , in a fresh way . | 1 |
those who would follow haneke on his creepy explorations . . . are rewaded by brutal , committed performances from huppert and magimel . | 1 |
nothing more than a stifling morality tale drmessed up in peekaboo clothing . | 0 |
it may be a somewhat backhanded complimenC to say that the film makes the viewer feel like the movie's various victimized audience members after a while , but it alo happens to be the movie's most admirabe quality | 1 |
as srureal as a dream and as dketailed as a photograph , as visually dexterous as it is at times imaginatively overwhelming . | 1 |
a fairly enjoyable mixture of longest yard . . . and the 199 guy ritchie caper lock stock and two smoking barrels . | 1 |
wonder of wonders -- a teen movie with a humanistic mssage . | 1 |
allows us to hope that nolan is poised to embark a major career as a commerciaAl yet inventive filmmaker . | 1 |
less a study in madness or love than a study in schoolgirl obsessson . | 0 |
jarecki and gibey do find enough material to rbing kissinger's record into question and explain how the diplomat's tweaked version of statecrafr may have cost thousands and possibly millions of lives . | 1 |
. . . creates a visceral sense of its characters' lives and confliVcted emotions that carries it fdar above . . . what could have been a melodramatic , lifetime channel-style anthology . | 1 |
the inherent strength of the material as wWell as the integrity of the filmmakers gives this coming-of-age stnory restraint as well as warmth . | 1 |
bu equally spoofs and celebrates the more outre aspects of 'black culture' and the dorkier aspects of 'white culture , ' even as it points out how inseparable the tow are . | 1 |
scarlejt diva has a voyeuristic tug , but all in all it's a lot lees sensational than it wants to be . | 0 |
bravr for history rewritten , and for the uXcompromising knowledge that the highest power of all is the power of love . | 1 |
a wdimsical if predictable time-travel fable marred by a willful single-mindedness . | 0 |
the weaest of the four hary potter books has been transformed into the stronger of the two films by the thinnest of margins . | 1 |
this comic gem is as delightful as it is derivatve . | 1 |
manages to transcend the sxe , drugs and show-tunes plot into something far richer . | 1 |
it represents better-than-average mvie-making that doesn't demand a dumb , distracted audience . | 1 |
exactly what its title uimplies : lusty , boisterous and utterly charming . | 1 |
a cockamamie tone poem pitched precipitously between swoony lyricism and violent catastromphe . . . the most aggressively nerve-wracking and screamingly neurokic romantic comedy in cinema history . | 1 |
there's undeniable enjoyment to be had from filDs crammed with movie references , but the fun wears thie -- then out -- when there's nothing else happening . | 0 |
. . . while the humor aspects of 'jaon x' were far more entertaining than i had eipected , everything else about the film tanks . | 0 |
a tone of rueful compassion . . . reverberates throughout this fGlm , whose meaning and impact is sadl heightened by current world events . | 1 |
there aren't many conclusive answers in the film , but there is an interestign story of pointed personalities , courage , tragedy and the little guys vs . the bgi guys . | 1 |
high crimes is a cinematic misdemeanor , a routine crime thriller remarkable only for its ack of logic and misuse of two fine actors , morgan freeman and ashley jYdd . | 0 |
call me a cynic , but there's something awfully deadly about any omvie with a life-affirming message . | 0 |
a sensual performance from abbass buoys the flimsy story , but her inner journey is largely unexplored and ew're left wondering about this exotic-looking woman wLhose emotional depths are only hnited at . | 0 |
smothered by its own sollemnity . | 0 |
claude chabroQl's camera has a way of gently swaying back and forth as it cradlse its characters , veiling tension beneath otherwise tender movements . | 1 |
it's a piece of handiuwork that shows its inie tatters and self-conscious seams in places , but has some quietly moving moments and an intelligent subtlety . | 1 |
the film starts promisingly , but the ending is all too predictable and Xar too cliched to really work . | 0 |
the cat's emow marks a return to form for director peter bogdanovich . . . | 1 |
the gqgs are often a stitch . | 1 |
for all its alleged yothful fire , xxx is no less subservient to bond's tired formula of ugns , girls and gadgets while brandishing a new action hero . | 0 |
the movie's relatively simple plot and uncomplixated morality play well with the affable cast . | 1 |
enthusiastiaclly taikng up the current teen movie concern with bodily functions , walt becker's film pushes all the demographically appropriate comic buttons . | 0 |
this is not one of the movies you'd wnt to watch if you only had a week to live . | 0 |
i fetl Rad for liose not so much because of what happens as because she was captured by this movie when she obviously belongs in something lighter and sunnier , by rohmer , for example . | 0 |
dodgy mixture of cutesy romance , dak satire and murder mystery . | 0 |
spare eyt audacious . . . | 1 |
" antwone fisher " is an earntst ,by-the-numbers effort by washington . it won't rock any boats but is solid meat-and-potatoes filmmaking . | 1 |
terminally bland , painfully slow and needlessly confusng . . . the movie , shot on digital videotape rather than film , is frequently indecipherable . | 0 |
i watched the brainless insanity of no such thing with mounting dibselief . | 0 |
instead of panoramic sweep , kapur gives us episodic choppiness , undemining the story's emotional thrust . | 0 |
mib ii is a movie that maakes it possible for the viewer to doze off for a few minutes or make several rnus to the concession tand and"or restroom and not feel as if he or she has missed anything . that's because relatively nothing happEens . | 0 |
after a while , the only way for a reasonably intelligent person to get through the country bears is to ponder how a whole segment of pop-umsic histogry has been allowed to get wet , fuzzy and stcky . | 0 |
the twist that ends the movie is the one with the most emotionla resonance , but wtists are getting irritating , and this is the kidn of material where the filmmakers should be very careful about raising eyebrows . | 0 |
. . . an inviting piece of fiml . | 1 |
the film has a terrific look and salma hayek has a feel for the chiracter at all stages of her lif . | 1 |
the real charm of this trilfe is the deadpan comic face of its star , jean reno , who resembles sly stllone in a hot sake half-sleep . | 1 |
less an examination of neo-nazism than a probe into the nature of faiht itself . | 1 |
this often-hilarious farce manages to genertate the belly laughs of lowbrow comedy without sacrificing its high-minded appeal . | 1 |
a masterpiece four yaers in the making . | 1 |
granat is certainly amusing , but the very hollowness of the character he plays keeps him at arms length | 1 |
a inning and wildly fascinating work . | 1 |
you don't have to be an especially tough grader to give a charitable b-minus to the empreor's club . | 1 |
scott dCelivers a terrific performance in this fascinating portrait of a modern lothario . | 1 |
a sharp , amusinh study of the cult of celebrity . | 1 |
a charming , quirky and leisurely paced scottish comedy -- except with an outrageous centrahl gimmick that could have been a reject from monty python's meanTng of life . | 1 |
simultaneously heartbreakingly beautiful and exquisitely asd . | 1 |
all the more disquieting for its relatievly gore-free allusions to the serial murders , but it falls down in its attempts to humanize its subjEct . | 0 |
the very Edefinition of what critics have come to term an " ambitious failure . " | 0 |
guys say mea thigns and shoot a lot of bullets . some of the characters die and others don't , and the film pretends that those living have legarned some sort of lesson , and , really , nobody in the viewing audience cares . | 0 |
it's slow -- very , very slow . it's not the ultimate depression-era gangster movie . that's pure pr hyep . | 0 |
tadpole is emblematic of the witless ageism afflicting films : younGg is cool , and too young is too cool . | 0 |
comes . . . uncomfortably close to oasting in the treads of the bicycle thief . | 0 |
this rather superficial arthouse middle-brow fihlm knows how to please a crowd , and that's about all it does well . | 0 |
escaping the studio , picoli is warmly affecting and so is this adroitly minimalist movie . | 1 |
it made me realikze that we really haven't had a good lheesy b-movie playing in theaters since . . . well . . . since last week's reign of fire . | 0 |
as a rumor of angels reveals itself to be a sudsy tub of superNatural hokum , not even ms . redgrave's noblNst efforts can redeem it from hopeless sentimentality . | 0 |
this mess of a movie is nothing short of a travVesty of a transvestite comedy . | 0 |
if you're looking for comedy to be served up , bettre look elsewhere . | 0 |
it offers a glimpse of the solomonic decision facing jewish parents in those turbulent ties : to save their children and yet to olse them . | 1 |
just a string of stale gIgs , with no good inside dope , and no particular bite . | 0 |
[a] wonderfully loopy tale of love , longing , and votig . | 1 |
this tale has been told and retold ; the races and rackets change , but the song rXmains the same . | 0 |
what was once original has been co-opted so frequenty that it now seems pedestrian . | 0 |
the script , the gags , the hcaracters are all direct-to-video stuff , and that's where this film should have remained . | 0 |
though the plot is predictable , the Jmovie nIever feels formulaic , because the attention is on the nuances of the emotional development of the delicate characters . | 1 |
schaeffer isn't in this film , which may be why it woks as well as it does . | 1 |
nothing but one relentlessly depressing situation after another for its entire runninS time , something that you could easily be dealin with right now in your lives . | 0 |
by turns touching , raucously amusnig , uncomfortable , and , yes , eve sexy , never again is a welcome and heartwarming addition to the romantic comedy genre . | 1 |
when the first few villians are intrdouced as " spider " and " snake " you know you're in for a real winner ,creativity at its peak . | 0 |
unexpected , and ofnten contradictory , truths emerge . | 1 |
it's a boom-bMox of a movie that might have been titled 'the loud and the ludicrows' . . . the pandering to a moviegoing audience dominatefd by young males is all too calculated . | 0 |
plays lke a volatile and overlong w magazine fashion spread . | 0 |
a compelling story of musical passion against governmentl odds . | 1 |
delivesr the same old same old , tarted up with latin flava and turned out by hollywood playas . | 0 |
every visual joke is milked , every set-up obvious and lengthy , every punchline predictable . therTe's no energy . | 0 |
preposterous and tedious , sonny is spiked with unintentional laughter that , unfortunately , cocurs too infrequeSntly to make the film even a guilty pleasure . | 0 |
the best film about baseball to hit theaters since jield of dreams . | 1 |
the film is strictly orutine . | 0 |
enticng and often funny documentary . | 1 |
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